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Hearing the Poetry of Langston Hughes Through the Sounds of Jazz

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students have an appreciation of Langston Hughe's poetry and his use of jazz rhythms, have the ability to read poetry closely, and freewrite to gain a fresh perspective on music and literature.
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"I Will Read (Do you hear me? I mean it!) With Expression"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners, who are fluent readers, practice reading with expression after listening while the teachers models good reading. They respond to teacher directions to show a specified expression. Reading with a partner, they practice adding...
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Does the falling tree make a sound if no one if there to hear it? (or communication via encryption)

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore encryption. They discuss the importance of cryptography in our daily lives. Students use games and cryptography to discover transformational geometry and modulo systems. They design their own encryption puzzles and...
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Science, Sounds And Hearing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest ways that...
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The Rr Sound

For Teachers K
Students explore words that start with "Rr." In this beginning sounds lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with r. The teacher calls out words that start with r and asks the students if they hear the r sound. Students write...
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Our Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students identify their five senses and how the are used everyday. As a class, they develop a list of sounds they hear at a zoo and compare them with a list of sounds they hear at a park or school. They create an instrument on their...
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Sounds Good To Me

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view and discuss a video about sounds. They complete a worksheet that sorts sounds according to two columns - sounds students might hear in their neighborhoods and sounds they would not.
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Sneeze Cheese

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the /ch/ digraph by thinking of the sound that is made when someone sneezes. They listen to a tongue twister while identifying how many times they hear the /ch/ sounds and make words using the Elkonin boxes and letters....
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An Earful of Sound Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how the human ear receives and transmits sound from the environment. Through a book, they hear and discuss the importance of hearing. Students view an Internet site of the function of the ear and record the...
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Are You My Mother Game

For Teachers K
Students identify unknown sounds using their sense of hearing. They predict what objects were for the "Mother" game.
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Amazing Senses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this worksheet on the five senses, students follow directions and take a walk outside, noting what they see, hear, smell, taste and feel. Students then record their experience.
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Night Sounds

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, children will discuss the different sounds they hear at night, sounds that they don't usually hear during the day. Then they will write and record a poem about these night sounds.
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Juvenile Justice-Disposition

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the dispositional hearing as a part of the juvenile justice system. After a brief discussion of the parts of the disposition hearing, students work in groups to review case studies involving juveniles in Utah's justice...
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Ear Training - 7th chords

For Students 5th - 12th
In this ear training worksheet, students listen to each measure containing the bottom note of the triad they hear played and write the correct notes that are missing and construct the requested chords on the this sheet music worksheet.
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Eggs Filled With Sound-Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their five senses to examine an eggs with objects inside them. They use their hearing to identify the object in the egg and open them to see if their guess was correct. They end the lesson by discussing their sense of hearing.
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Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K
Students listen to words, then segment them into sounds, and hear sounds and blend them into words.
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Hello H!

For Teachers K
Students recognize the letter h in print and the phoneme /h/ in spoken words. They say a tongue twister with contains words emphasizing the /h/ sound. They then listen to the story "Horton Hears a Who" and identify the words with the...
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Carry Your Own Load Toad!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore how to spell words with the vowel digraph /oa/. They read and spell words containing the oa digraph. Students read Toad Makes a Road. They clap their hands when they hear the /O/ sound in the story. Learners practice...
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Monster Senses

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a story that contains many sensory words to describe an object. They listen a second time using a signal to indicate when they hear a sensory word. They write a short story about a monster using appropriate...
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Bouncing and Dancing with B and D

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the differences between the letters b and d. They practice seeing the letters and hearing the sounds with words and tongue twisters. They practice letter formation for both letters and listen to the book, The...
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Musical Rhythms

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students listen to music and bounce a tennis ball to the eat. Students close their eyes and listen to the rhythm. They switch hands on beats where they hear a new percussion sound. Students compose their own pieces using Oranga's band...
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Phonics

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics activity activity, learners observe and critique nine pictures of various animals and other objects. Students then listen to hear each picture pronounced and then decide if they hear the indicated letter underneath each...
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The Silent "e"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this silent "e" activity, students look at twelve words, say them to themselves and hear the sound that the vowel makes in each word. Students then write down their own meaning for the word or match from the definition bank provided...
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Where is the Sound of H?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter/sound worksheet, students look at pictures, circle the letter sound they hear at the beginning of the word, then print the word in the space provided.

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